Representative Darrell Issa is against benefits for 9/11 workers
We have a new use for one of our post labels. Used only once before for Glenn Beck of CNN, now the post label “idiot” is awarded to Representative Darrell Issa of San Diego. He made a series of stupid...
View ArticleColorado: Barbecue grill in pickup may have started fire
Apparently two fires on Wednesday along highway 82 in Snowmass Canyon, Colorado were started from burning embers blowing out of a barbecue grill in the back of a pickup traveling upvalley on the...
View ArticleKinked fire hose and improper procedures delayed rescue of IndyCar driver...
The nozzleman wonders why the hose is not charging as Simona de Silvestro sits in the burning race car. Last weekend, on June 5, Simona de Silvestro crashed her IndyCar into the wall during the race at...
View ArticleLoyola University Prof uses Thirtymile fire as evidence women should not be...
A professor at Loyola University New Orleans has written a ridiculous article published by Psychology Today that uses the tragic Thirtymile fire that killed four wildland firefighters in 2001 as...
View ArticleCongressional Fire Service Caucus and the 9/11 First Responder Bill
(Scroll to the bottom to see updates) I ran across a news article about Senator Joesph Lieberman (I-CT) accepting the nomination to serve as one of the seven or eight Co-Chairs of the Congressional...
View ArticleIgniting a controlled burn with buckets of diesel
Screen grab from the National Geographic Channel video. Apparently there is a show on the National Geographic Channel called Python Hunters. I happened to run across this video from the program, which...
View ArticleLegislation introduced in Montana to fine feds for wildfire smoke
Smoke rises from the Beaver Fire northwest of Yreka, California, August 12, 2014. Photo by Bill Gabbert. From the Bozeman Daily Chronicle: In recent summers, Gallatin Valley residents have sometimes...
View ArticleEvidence suggests that water at Mount Rushmore contaminated by fireworks...
Photo showing Mount Rushmore fireworks with burning embers hitting the ground. Photo: South Dakota Tourism Between 1998 and 2009 the park Superintendents at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South...
View ArticleArson in the snow
This is a screen grab of an Instagram photo posted approximately two weeks before today, February 13, 2017. “406” probably refers to Montana’s area code. I didn’t know this was a thing. If that is...
View ArticleForest Service releases video of explosion that started 46,000-acre fire
A U.S. Border Patrol agent pleaded guilty to starting the Sawmill Fire southeast of Tucson by shooting at an exploding target The post Forest Service releases video of explosion that started...
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